WP urges EC not to allow Jamaat men to run
The Workers Party of Bangladesh yesterday urged the Election Commission not to allow any Jamaat-e-Islami man to contest in the upcoming municipality election.
Although Jamaat may be barred from participating in the polls as a party, many of its leaders and activists may contest in the polls under the banner of the BNP-led alliance, WPB leaders claimed.
"So we demand that no person of Jamaat is allowed to contest because it not a registered political party now. If someone wants to participate, he or she must quit the party first," Fazle Hossain Badsha, general secretary of the party, told reporters.
He was talking to reporters after a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Rakibuddin Ahmad at the EC's office in the capital.
Badsha, who led a delegation to the meeting with the CEC, also requested to defer the municipality polls as they need more time for preparations. Polls to 236 municipalities will be held on December 30.
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